its gleaming office towers and high-dollar townhomes lying entirely within the city of los angeles. and what makes this place run is money, because century city is home to agents, film producers and attorneys. usually around here when someone talks about bloody murder, they re talking about a deal that went south. this time it was the real thing. the lead detective for the lapd investigating pam fayed s murder was salaam abdul-rahman. mrs. fayed wasn t robbed. no, she wasn t. mrs. fayed wasn t sexually assaulted. no, she was not. so the purpose of that crime was to kill her. it was to kill her. that was the only purpose of the crime was to get rid of her and make sure she was dead. abdul rahman says the murder was carefully planned. mrs. fayed comes out at about 6:30 at night. that s correct. and she s walking to her car, what, alone? by herself. at some point, what, the killer comes up behind her?
money transfer business without a license, and he pleaded not guilty. at the same time, detective abdul rahman continued his investigation into pam s murder, starting not just with the videotape of jim fayed at the time of the murder, but also with some security video of the parking garage exit. what we did was that we narrowed it down to the time around when mrs. fayed was killed and the vehicles that were leaving the parking structure. in the minutes after the attack, this red suzuki pulls up to the garage exit, the wrong exit. a man holding what seems to be a black hooded sweatshirt gets out of the back seat to check the exit gate before jumping back in. we ran the vehicle license check, and we found that one of the vehicles that were leaving the garage was associated with mr. fayed and goldfinger. mr. fayed s business. yes. detectives traced that red suzuki suv to an avis rental car
that federal case. the detective focused on that security video and realized that those grainy pictures were so telling not because of what jim fayed is doing, but because of what jim isn t doing. it s the moment of pam s murder in the parking garage next door, and everyone in the frame starts to react, to move toward the sound of pam fayed s screams. everyone, that is, except jim fayed. he doesn t seem interested. is it your belief that at the time surveillance cameras capture mr. fayed sort of walking around the courtyard area, that he knew his wife was being killed at that exact moment? yes. the reason i base my belief on that is mr. fayed, when he walks out of the building everyone is interested in what s going on in the parking structure except mr. fayed, because he knows what had just transpired. but that apparent disinterest in pam s screams wasn t enough to charge jim with murder. in fact, there was little
evidence he had anything to do with it. then detective abdul-rahman s phone rang. the assistant u.s. attorney tells us that mr. fayed s cellmate wants to talk to whoever is handling the investigation of mrs. fayed s death. and what does the cellmate tell you? well, the cellmate tells us that mr. fayed had confessed to him that he had hired someone to kill his wife. detectives believe that someone was josé moya, the ranch hand. the cellmate also had other information that had not been reported in the news. mr. fayed s cellmate had told us that mr. fayed had tried to set his wife up to be killed four different times. and what was interesting about that was that on one of these occasions, he said that mr. fayed had set up a time when she was at a party in malibu on the fourth of july. was pamela fayed at a party in malibu on july 4th? yes, she was. and that led to his credibility. so at that time we decided to try to get this conversation on
decided to try him for capital murder. prosecutors alan jackson and eric harman laid out their case. it s not your typical love story for a boy meets girl, but instead it s a love story where boy meets it s that love that caused this man, james michael fayed, to have his wife murdered. prosecutors offered this snapshot of the fayed s riches during the short time they ran their business. so mr. fayed found a niche, which is transferring money for only a 2% fee, which was highly lucrative. so those of you good at math, you will know that s approximately $20 million in fees that went to goldfinger between 2001 and 2008. making a lot of money. but the good times didn t last. the company was under indictment. pam was cooperating with federal investigators. and the couple were getting